FY 2012 Grantees

Folk and Traditional Arts

Project grants to give Minnesotans more opportunities to experience folk and traditional arts

Number of grants awarded on January 4, 2012

8

Total dollars awarded on January 4, 2012

$ 333,652

Grantee, City

Grant Amount

Hmong Cultural Center, Saint Paul

$ 10,000

Hmong Cultural Center's musical instrument program, The Qeej Instrument, shows how the instrument is intrinsically associated with the Hmong cultural identity and heritage and plays an important role in the Hmong funeral ceremony.

Gao Hong, Northfield

$ 24,700

Gao Hong seeks to preserve Chinese temple music and to share this music through community outreach activities and stage performances at several venues in Northfield, Saint Paul, and Minneapolis.

International Friendship Through the Performing Arts, Eagan

$ 45,400

IFTPA will present a ten-day residency by the Miao (Hmong) Autonomous Region Rongshui Song and Dance Troupe from China's Guanxi province, featuring outreach activities throughout the Twin Cities, and performances at O'Shaughnessy Auditorium at Saint Catherine University, in Saint Paul, and Saint Olaf College, in Northfield.

Ka Joog will work with The Cedar, partner with local Somali-run organizations, and engage local, national, and international Somali artists to create, teach, present, and document the Somali oral traditions of poetry, storytelling, and music.

Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis

$ 75,000

Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota will connect Lao traditional storytellers and their students to modern technology and emerging techniques, to build diverse audiences, encouraging high levels of professionalism among emerging storytellers.

Douglas Limón, White Bear Lake

$ 22,352

The Bandolier Bag Project will revitalize a part of our Native American cultural knowledge that is an endangered tradition, by bringing family and community together to carry on the tradition of the bandolier bag, with traditional applique and loom beadwork.

Minnesota Discovery Center, Chisholm

$ 13,200

The Minnesota Discovery Center and the Range Fiber Arts Guild are partnering to present a six-month art exhibit featuring interactive displays of the rug weaving process, weaving's influence on regional art, and weaving's significance to the history and culture of the region.